[cancercured] Re: Coffe/Green Tea---pulse, blood pressure

I would be careful concluding a cause-and-effect relationship from a coincidence. Barring repeatability (and even there expectation might come in), a better indicator might be how it makes you FEEL on a deep level.

Tea is noted for a soothing effect -- which is what I always experience (whereas coffee, which I don't drink, except for an occasional decaf, gives me a VERY unpleasant buzz), so I would be a little surprised if it were responsible for the effects you mention, but individual effects can obviously vary.

I really think that the caffeine in tea works differently than that in other contexts for most people, but again, anything's possible, especially on an individual basis.

P.S. What would be the purpose of drinking beer without alcohol? -- a pleasant fermented beverage.
:)

--- In cancercured@yahoogroups.com, "breathedeepnow" <aug20@...> wrote:
>
> There is nothing good about coffee except the taste, and I don't even
> like that because it leaves a yucky after-taste in my mouth. It's
> another of those multi-billion, maybe even trillion dollar businesses
> which must be perpetuated because of how much money it makes.
> Decaffeinated coffee? That seems to me like "no-alcohol" "beer." Is
> it even actually beer if it has no alcohol? And what is the purpose
> of drinking it if it contains no alcohol? None, really.
>
> Green tea has plenty of caffeine, though it does have significant
> anti-oxidant benefits. There are naturopaths and other health
> professionals who feel the negatives of caffeine in green tea weigh
> too heavily against its benefits. They recommend things like red
> raspberries/red raspberry powder, stinging nettle and other
> plants/herbs.
>
> I was taking 7 capsules of green tea daily for weeks, and have found
> that my resting pulse, taken first thing in the morning before
> becoming active, has risen from 60 to about 82! My blood pressure,
> last time I checked it, was 133/83, which I believe to be just into
> the danger zone. There are other possible factors, such as my having
> been down with serious bronchtis/sinusitis for the last 6 weeks, and
> my not having exercised much at all during that time. But I do not
> think the green tea extract did me any good in that regard.
>
> I have been off green tea extract for about 3-4 days now, and am back
> to exercising and the bronchitis has calmed down considerably. I am
> waiting to see if my pulse and blood pressure come back down.
>
> Elliot
>
> --- In cancercured@yahoogroups.com, "Guru K" <greatyoga@> wrote:
> >
> > I just heard on the news that there is an adverse relationship
> > between drinking coffee for pregnant women and their babies.
> > Congratulations on cutting down on the cigs.
> >
> > GB
> >
> > --- In cancercured@yahoogroups.com,
> > "lineridergarcia22" <lineridergarcia22@> wrote:
> > >
> > > drinking a green tea is always better than coffee. Just look in
> a
> > coffee cup and you can see
> > > what ends up in the pipes ! I am using honey rather than brown
> > sugar. Any reports on how
> > > honey is for cancer(against it or not) ? I am down to one
> cigarette
> > every hour and a half to
> > > two hours now. fourth day of reducing the nicotine intake.
> > >
> >
>

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